Australian academic Yang Hengjun given suspended death sentence by Chinese court
by Helen Davidson in Taipei, Ben Doherty in Sydney, a from World news | The Guardian on (#6JCE8)
Australia's foreign minister said the government was appalled' by the sentence, which could mean life in prison for Yang
Australian academic Yang Hengjun has been given a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court, after five years in detention on espionage charges.
Yang was arrested in 2019 at Guangzhou airport, accused of spying for an undisclosed foreign country. The 57-year-old pro-democracy blogger is an Australian citizen who was born in China. He was tried in a one-day, closed-door hearing in Beijing in May 2021, with a verdict not publicly disclosed.
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